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Experts say the main difference between British and American attitudes to investigating online child pornography lies in 'stings'. US officers are allowed to set up fake websites offering illegal child porn in order to flush out potential paedophiles.

QCA Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, the regulator of the exam boards. Chairman is Sir William Stubbs; chief executive is Ken Boston. Previous chiefs have left complaining of government interference

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Scotland is celebrating another rags-to-riches literary success story in the wake of JK Rowling with the publication of The Crimson Petal and the White, the adventures of a nineteenth-century prostitute as told by Michel Faber, a former pickle-packer currently eking out an existence in a ramshackle railway cottage in the Highlands.